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Dermaptera Species File
Genus

Metresura Rehn, 1922

Type

type species by original designation of Metresura Rehn, 1922

Nomenclature (12)

  • Metresura Rehn, 1922: 314.

    type species by original designation Forficula ruficeps Burmeister, 1838

  • Metresura Rehn, 1922 (classified as Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902) in Rehn, 1922: 314. Classification
  • Metresura Rehn, 1922 in Steinmann, 1989c: 785. Catalog/Collection
  • Metresura Rehn, 1922 in Steinmann, 1993: 492. Key

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1922) Studies in Costa Rican Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Paper One. Two new genera and three new species of Dermaptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 47, 307–318.
  • Hebard, M. (1929) Supplementary notes on Panamanian Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 55, 389–400.
  • Townes, H.K. (1945) A list of the generic and subgeneric names of the Dermaptera, with their genotypes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 38, 343–356.
  • Brindle, A. (1970) A key to the neotropical genus Neolobophora Scudder, and related genera (Dermaptera, Forficulidae). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 106, 97–105.
  • Reichardt, H. (1971) Catalogue of new world Dermaptera (Insecta). Part IV Forficuloidea. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 24, 161–184.
  • Sakai, S. (1973) VII. Forficulidae. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris, 357 pp.
  • Brindle, A. (1975) Notes on the neotropical genus Metresura Rehn (Dermaptera, Forficulidae). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 111, 79–87.
  • Steinmann, H. (1975) Suprageneric classification of Dermaptera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 21, 195–220.
  • Sakai, S. (1982) A new proposed classification of the Dermaptera with special reference to the check list of the Dermaptera of the world. Daito Bunka University, 20, 1–108.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989c) World Catalogue of Dermaptera. In Series Entomologica. Vol. 43, 1–934 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1993) Dermaptera: Eudermaptera II. Das Tierreich, 108, 709 pp.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species80614